Category: Teen & Young Adult

Accidental Tribes

FROM AWARD-WINNING, BESTSELLING AUTHOR C.S. PASCOAL “Original, exceptional, and a riveting read from start to finish. The kind that keeps young readers fully engaged from beginning to end.” Midwest Book Review”Fast-paced and compelling, perfect for teens who want fiction grounded in the realities of the twenty-first century.” The Children’s Book Review Eight kids nobody trusted. One room everyone forgot. Secrets the school was hiding. At an underfunded public schoo... [Read More...]

Sketch

What happens when the world’s newest superhero is also its last hope? On a study trip to Egypt, art student Charles meets Heba, a street peddler guarding an ancient magic ink that can transform imagination into reality. When Charles returns home and sketches his own superhero, he doesn’t just finish a drawing. He brings it to life. Too bad Sketch’s first day on the job is a disaster. His grand attempt at flight ends in a four-foot face-plant, his strength sputters in and out, ... [Read More...]

The Tahra Files

Tahra Mamoun is a lonely but gifted fifteen-year-old girl who discovers extraordinary remote viewing abilities. This series tracks her journey from initial discovery to exploration of her unique gifts, in which she encounters spies, secret codes, conspiracies, and similarly gifted individuals. Set against a backdrop of the Cold War, Tahra must navigate an ultra-traditional family, bullying, social isolation, friendship and trust. $0.99 – $2.99 on Kindle. Learn More ... [Read More...]

Free: Believe It or Knot

What would you do if a tree started talking to you? When nine-year-old Beau Johnson learns that his Navy family is moving from California to Florida, his perfect world suddenly feels anything but perfect. Leaving behind his friends, his neighborhood, and everything familiar is harder than he ever imagined. Then Beau meets Knot. Hidden among the trees in his new community, Knot is no ordinary tree. Wise, funny, and surprisingly insightful, he becomes Beau’s closest confidant during a seaso... [Read More...]

Free: Athena

Athena: A Teenager Fights the Climate Crisis When a hurricane hits her desert town — a town that’s never seen one — sixteen-year-old Athena walks outside to film it, while her classmates shelter in place. She has to see it up close before she’ll believe it. Athena has grown up on her grandfather’s warnings about a warming world and the generations that failed to act in time. Protests haven’t worked. Speeches haven’t worked. So when she reaches her breaking poin... [Read More...]

Becoming Mzungu

Emma made the biggest decision of her life – to leave her flat, her job, her friends, and become an aid worker in Africa. Fear and excitement overwhelmed her in equal measures as the day of departure grew closer. The next six months were completely different from what Emma imagined, but gave her so much more than she had ever hoped. $2.99 on Kindle. ... [Read More...]

Channeling Marilyn: A Novel

High school senior Lexa Donovan longs to be more than a bit player in her own drab life—and when she’s chosen to be part of her school’s spring production of Bus Stop, she thinks her wish has come true. But her thrill turns to panic when she’s tapped to play the leading role, sexy showgirl Cherie. One thing tall, plus-size Lexa knows for sure is that she is the exact opposite of the most famous Cherie ever: sex-goddess Marilyn Monroe. Lexa wants out before she makes a fool of herself in... [Read More...]

The Bush Clinic: Book I of The Tribal Wars

A space colonization story about seeking independence and home rule in the face of corporate greed. Tribal women bind together in a war zone where they are discounted as not important enough to save or keep safe. On Dolvia in the galaxy’s Westend, women of diverse tribes fight alongside warriors to bring down greedy offworld mining corporations, and local despots, to gain liberty and home rule. Lt. Mike Shaw demands Dr. Greensboro’s doctoring skills at the hospital, forcing the closure ... [Read More...]

Kat’s Greek Summer

Soon-to-be high school freshman Kat Baker is all about training for the cross-country team this summer. Then her Greek mom knocks her off-course by dragging her to Greece. To meet the family. How can a girl train in ninety-billion degrees? And with a sharp-eyed Yiayiá watching her every move? Determined to keep her running dream alive, Kat embarks on a risk-filled odyssey, discovering that self-truth is at the heart of dreams, first love—even family—and that it is up to her to speak up and... [Read More...]